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The Castaways and Palm Beach Sailing Clubs are combining their offshore racing programs to encourage family and competitive large boat racing. In keeping with the spirit of Competition, the program will include a season offshore racing award; to the club whose members come out and race, and accumulate the most points for the season. Club Points were awarded for boats entered, finishing, and placing in each of 8 races.
Click here to see Detailed Series I Offshore Racing Results!
Click here to see the Series II Offshore Racing Results! And finally, the overall totals:
Castaways Sailing Club: 121 Points Palm Beach Sailing Club: 94 Points Very close indeed. This program is open to all seaworthy sailing yachts sailing under the PHRF handicap system. Yachts affiliated with PBSC and Castaways organizations are eligible to participate towards the Season Award and each of the Series Awards. Non-affiliated yachts are encouraged to participate on an introductory basis, and become members of one of the sponsoring clubs. The program for 2008 consisted of two series of races with 4 races per series. Each club conducting ½ of the races in each series. The first series: ( Individual series Awards for classes with 3 or more boats entered) Sunday 18 May PBSC 12:00 PM or 1200 Start Sunday 22 June CSC 1:00 PM or 1300 Start Sunday 20 July PBSC 1:00 PM or 1300 Start Saturday 20 Sept CSC (Castaway Cup*) Pursuit Start 9:00AM or 090 The second series: ( Individual series Awards for classes with 3 or more boats entered) Sunday Aug 17 PBSC 1:00 PM or 1300 Start Sunday 21 Sept CSC (Castaway Cup*) First start 10:05 or 1005 Sunday 19 Oct PBSC Fred Thomas Memorial* Start to be announced Sunday 16 Nov CSC 11:00 AM Start * - Requires separate application
Planning to Race: Boats racing must declare club affiliation (will hold for a series). Entrants must notify either of the Joint Committee Chairman by the Friday before a planned start. (*Castaways Cup and the *Fred Thomas Memorial require separate applications). Boats submitting a valid PHRF Certificate will be assigned that rating. Boats that do not have a certificate will be assigned a PHRF rating based on the average rating of US PHRF Racing Fleet Data Base and may be adjusted either up or down. You are encouraged to have a valid certificate to minimize handicap discussions. All competitors must monitor Channel 72 on race day for race committee instructions ( checking in, course, class starts, number of races, and other details). Protests must be announced before a yacht finishes and received in writing within 24 hours. Races that are cancelled will attempt to be rescheduled the following week or made up by extra races on a regular scheduled date. Classes: PHRF- Spinnaker: PHRF Non – Spinnaker: PHRF – Multihulls. The PHRF Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker boats may be combined if not enough boats are racing in each class ( Non- spinnaker boats will receive a handicap allowance determined by the joint race committee): Minimum of 3 boats to constitute a race, and a Minimum of 5 boats per fleet to receive a separate start. Monitor Channel 72 for specific start instructions. Scoring for the inter club match Award will be as follows and is the sum of all 8 races in all classes: 5 points for each first place finish 3 points for each second place finish 2 points for each third place finish 1 point for each boat that properly starts and finishes. 0 points for DNC, DNF, or DSQ. The results of each race and the cumulative club totals will be posted as soon as possible after each race. Awards for series ( individual boats) and the overall club competition (Castaways or PBSC) will be at an event at the end of the season ( to be announced). Minimum of 3 boats/fleet for first place award – 5 boats/fleet for a second and – 7 boats/fleet for third. Individual Club Races eg. Castaways Cup – Fred Thomas Memorial; will have their own awards. All races will be governed by The Racing Rules of Sailing RRS 2004-2008 and US Sailing Prescriptions, except as modified by the Joint Committee or by the Race Committee conducting a particular event. Competitors participate in any event entirely at their own risk. See Rule 4, Decision to Race. Neither the Palm Beach Sailing Club, the Castaways Sailing Club nor any of their officers or directors nor any person organizing or conducting any event accepts any liability for property damage or personal injury or death (even if caused by their own negligence) sustained by any person in conjunction with, prior to, during or after any event. Joint Offshore Race Committee Chairman:
____________________________ The Castaways and Palm Beach Sailing Clubs sponsored a series of races during the Summer of 2008. The first series draws to a close with a total of 39 boats crossing the start lines for the competing clubs, with 25 starts for the Castaways and 14 for Palm Beach Sailing Club. This is an excellent way to gain sailing and racing experience. The races are friendly, most of the boats find the marks, and the slower boats enjoy the day just as much as the faster boats. If you are interested in more racing information, please contact Gordon Rowse, Castaways Race Chairman at (561) 844-9161 or Brian Beaver, PBSC Race Chairman at (561) 844-3178. Gordon and Brian can also help you find a crew slot on one of the races if you want to learn or enjoy a day on the water. The club points for Series 1 as of July 22 are based on the number of boats representing each club that cross the starting line and are as follows: SERIES I CLUB POINTS
The club point scoring is designed to encourage less experienced boats to come out and represent their club! We especially encourage multi-hull boats to join the fun. We had two multihulls competing on July 20 and need three to have a multihull class. The upcoming Offshore Racing schedule is available by clicking on the Race Calendar. On May 18, 2008 two races were conducted. Here are the results: Series 1 Race 1 5/18 /2008Start Time
12:00 Noon
On June 22, the second in a series of jointly sponsored races was conducted by the Castaways and Palm Beach Sailing Clubs. The weather grew as the day progressed, presenting large gusts, lots of rain and many thrills late in the afternoon. Gordon Rouse on Namu, took the honors winning over Fermous by just under 2 minutes. Series 1 Race 2 6/22/2008 Start Time
1:05:00 PM
Series 1 Race 3 Start Time 1:00:00 PM Distance 8.4 NM PHRF Combined Fleet
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